Documentary about the Danish Murakami translator Mette Holm premiered at the IDFA festival (Amsterdam, 17 November 2017)

Nov 29, 2017 | Denmark, Netherlands

Tags: Denmark, NetherlandsThe director Nitesh Anjaan has made a documentary about Mette Holm, who has been translating the work of the Japanese author Haruki Murakami into Danish for many years: Dreaming Murakami. This glimpse into Holm’s life follows her on a trip to...

Danish language in focus on International Translation Day 2017

Sep 30, 2017 | Denmark

Tags: DenmarkOn 30 September, to celebrate International Translation Day 2017, the Danish Translators’ Association is hosting a conference in Copenhagen on the topic ´Nuances in Danish: Renewal and/or Impoverishment´. The event will include a translators’...

Language diversity in the spotlight at two Danish translation events (Copenhagen, Aarhus)

Sep 28, 2016 | Denmark

Tags: DenmarkTo celebrate International Translation Day 2016, the Danish Translators’ Association is hosting two events in different parts of Denmark. On 25 September, in Aarhus, four literary translators – working from Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic and Chinese into...

What language do you eat? (Milan, 30 September 2015)

Sep 28, 2015 | Denmark, Greece, Israel, Italy

Tags: Denmark, Greece, Israel, ItalyGreece, Israel and Denmark will meet in Milan on 30 September 2015. Andrea Di Gregorio, Raffaella Scardi and Eva Valvo, literary translators working into Italian from Greek, Hebrew and Danish respectively, will discuss their...

Danish Association initiates online encyclopedia of literary translators

Sep 3, 2014 | Denmark

Tags: DenmarkHad it not been for translators and their work, much of the world’s most important literature would only have been accessible to readers with specialized skills in foreign languages. Furthermore, without translations and the people who wrote them, a...